Mountain buzzard

Mountain Buzzard
	In Ethiopia
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Falconiformes ; (or Accipitriformes, q.v.)
Family:	Accipitridae
Genus:	Buteo
Species:	B. oreophilus
Binomial name
	Buteo oreophilus; Hartert and Neumann, 1914

The Mountain Buzzard (Buteo oreophilus) is a bird of prey that lives in montane forests in East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and extreme eastern DR Congo) and forests and plantations in South Africa. The latter population is sometimes considered a separate species, the Forest Buzzard (B. o. trizonatus).^[2]

At 45–50 cm, it is smaller than the Steppe Buzzard and darker brown, with less rufous above.

Sbuspecies

There are two recognized subspecies:^[3]

Buteo oreophilus oreophilus (Mountain Buzzard)
Buteo oreophilus trizonatus (Forest Buzzard)

References

^ Template:IUCN
^ Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan, 2003, Struik Publishers, ISBN 1-86872-857-9
^ Clements, J.F. (2010). "The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, Version 6.5" (xls). Cornell University Press. Retrieved 12 June 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

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[2] Birds of Africa south of the Sahara, Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan, 2003, Struik Publishers, ISBN 1-86872-857-9

[cle-3] Clements, J.F. (2010). "The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, Version 6.5" (xls). Cornell University Press. Retrieved 12 June 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

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